But I leave you with this question. stream Lets return quickly to that ANU study involving resumes, which found that people with Chinese sounding names or Middle-Eastern sounding names suffered from ostensible discrimination. Part-time employees are paid the same rate, adjusted pro rata for the hours they work. So how then do we embrace diversity in the workplace? the principal or acting principal this authority cannot be delegated to an assistant principal or other member of staff. Some award or enterprise agreements allow employees time off in lieu of working overtime, instead of extra pay. To date, weve had organisations from corporate Australia and higher education and sport, from local government, to name but a few areas, come on board. Thus, make the most of this section. Lateness is frowned upon in Australia. The researchers found that if you had a Chinese sounding name, you had to apply 68% more times in order to be invited to interview compared to someone with an Anglo-Saxon sounding name. Employers and employees are both responsible for Australias Fair Work Commissions annual review raised the basic minimum for full-time workers over 21 years old to AU$772.60 (497, US$567) per week or AU$20.33 (13, US$15) per hour, from July 2021 until June 2022. And I think this is part of the difficulty we have with having a conversation about cultural diversity and leadership. Those advertisements may have been aimed at raising awareness about racism for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, but their content are applicable to cultural diversity more generally. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the origin of Harmony Day. The APSC has responsibility for the administration of workplace bargaining policies, including the 2014 and 2015 policies. The inscriptions on one side say, The world is for us to share and respect. On the other side, it says, To be renovative and integrate. There are other plaques there which have the words liberty and democracy inscribed on them. You may Consider the honours lists around Australia Day and the Queens Birthday. Copyright Australian Human Rights Commission, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice. Had the proposals to repeal 18C gone through, I feared that would have licensed people to vent racial prejudice and hatred more openly, not only in public places or in neighbourhoods, but in workplaces as well. Working or interning in Australia can be a fun and Do you think they really have the right fit? endobj Typically, overtime pay may be 1.5 times normal salary for the first two or three hours and twice the normal hourly rate after this. Structured workplace learning provides students with the opportunity to integrate on-the-job experience with secondary study as part of the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), the VCE Vocational Major or the Victorian Pathways Certificate. To succeed in business in Australia, it is vital for both employers and employees to have a strong understanding of the business culture. Ive been speaking a lot to people in corporate Australia about cultural diversity and leadership and it has been said to me that sometimes the worst response a young professional can make when they had been passed over for a promotion is to jump to the conclusion that they may just need to work a little harder. Find your Regulator Australian WHS Strategy 2023-2033 Download a copy of the strategy Why we're here endobj /Contents 8 0 R>> A conflict of interest can occur in the workplace when someone in their position attains personal benefit or advantage by making decisions. You can also ask a question about a certain topic that you thing someone might have some expertise. If you are a student or teacher looking for work-based learning opportunities including work experience and structured workplace learning, refer to the SWL Statewide PortalExternal Link . Theres a negative case too if we can call it that for thinking about cultural diversity in the workplace. Many of you will be familiar of course with the intense debate that has taken place during the past year and a half or two years around the Racial Discrimination Act, particularly the racial vilification provisions of 18C and 18D. /Contents 6 0 R>> 3. The employer can ask an employee to work reasonable extra hours. Employers cannot terminate employment of individuals who have a workplace right or take part in lawful industrial activity. Visas and It is important to familiarise yourself with the cultural practices in Maybe you should slide over. In order to understand what prejudice and discrimination look and feel like, we need first to be able to put ourselves in the shoes of someone who may be on the receiving end of prejudice and discrimination. We think its a modest but important way that organisations can signal that they are taking prejudice and discrimination seriously, because we cant combat this problem through legislation alone although I do think legislation does play a fundamental role in setting the tone of our society. I give you the example of the Queens Birthday Honours List from last year. Employers should ensure that students are aware of the workplaces COVIDSafe Plan, if available, as part of their induction to the workplace. It is about ensuring that the status quo does not serve to advantage others and disadvantage others. We have 226 members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, but only a handful of those 226 come from non-European backgrounds. We should be clear that empathy doesnt require us to do an exercise of impersonation. Investigation protocols are a set of standard statements that publicly explain the process and expectations that guide the process. The Child Safe Standards require schools to put in place systems and processes to help prevent harm to students in all school environments, including workplace learning environments where students undertake: For assistance with queries relating to structured workplace learning arrangements, please contact the relevant organisation as outlined below. About 11% say that theyve been excluded from the workplace or from social settings because of their race, about 5% say that theyve experienced physical assault because of their racial background. If you had a Middle-Eastern sounding name, you needed to apply 64 more times to be invited to interview. We dont, for example, need to conduct a radical experiment in the form what John Howard Griffin, an American journalist in the 1950s, did. So the numbers look pretty convincing and compelling when you aggregate all of that. We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Victoria and pay respect to the ongoing living cultures of First Peoples. And how are we to explain that persistence of such under representation of cultural diversity? for travel both the employer and the parent/guardian or the student if they are aged 18 years or over. Identify different methods to evaluate the communication strategy. The one aberration that was found in the research was that in Melbourne it was in fact an advantage if you had an Italian sounding name, not a disadvantage. Rules make sure everyone is safe and treated with respect in the workplace, and there are rules for businesses and employees. for accommodation the parent/guardian or the student if they are aged 18 years or over. If you look at our public service, you see a similar pattern as well. If we are talking about a country that still takes in a significant number of immigrants every year, where almost half that population is first or second generation, then this diversity isnt likely to diminish in any way. I draw your attention to research done by Australian National University in 2010 involving resumes, 4000 resumes which were sent to prospective employers. Lets begin specifically with our Federal Parliament. Schools should ensure that students undertaking structured workplace learning that is required for assessment within the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), the VCE Vocational Major or the Victorian Pathways Certificate understand that any exclusion from attending work onsite may impact their ability to complete their placement hours and their course completion. WebWork Structure And Protocols In Australian Workplace In innovative entrepreneurs: lawbook co production and work structure in australian workplace Job seekers in A man sits next to an Aboriginal youth in a shopping centre only for a man, the so-called invisible discriminator, to whisper in his ear: Are you sure you want to be there? Australian Standards may be purchased through selected bookstores and online. It has on it a number of inscriptions in a number of different languages, in Chinese, in Vietnamese, in Khmer, in Lao and in English. These are some of the questions an invisible discriminator may be posing in that scenario involving an interviewee of a minority racial or ethnic background. It should include all your relevant contact details, such as your job title, company name, work number and email address. Many of you will have seen some advertisements not long ago from Beyond Blues Stop. where a student is undertaking structured workplace learning as part of a VET program within the VCE including the VCE Vocational Major, or the Victorian Pathways Certificate the principal must be satisfied that the student is undertaking, or has completed the OHS training unit of competency within the VET program. These begin the day after the employer tells the employee they want to terminate employment and end on the final day of work. If the trial period is unsuccessful, the individual must be given notice and be paid for any unused leave. If you think of the source countries of our migration at the moment, the two biggest source countries are now India and China. Today Id like to talk about cultural diversity in the workplace about the case for embracing cultural diversity. Where an organisation is able to manage its cultural diversity and be inclusive, it is more likely to reduce the cost of staff turnover, more likely to minimise legal and compliance risks, more likely to negotiate any negative publicity that may arise from mismanaging a case involving diversity. Once theyre put in place, they exert tremendous power in making sure that the outcome of your investigation will be valid, transparent and legally defensible. There are many principles, values and influences that Lets begin with our most public of institutions, our parliaments. xX]o6|\'y Anyone who was found without a reference book was to be arrested and detained for up to 30 days. Probation periods generally last between three and six months, during which the individual has the same rights and statutory benefits as full employees. HK+ E$e}g)[^HkbwK?WZ-Kz,n-]|IxrZv\v + TtbcHbUn)VL#E=_}F<5| mI%>6dTi 6cFSC3$(~\hGl3zU2 bO P/ 5QS&G6aA d*cGM+mKN@p{wATisFvv,[L#:3PRN]Y,4^Z*~EK0@YO,`aj4 Its worth us thinking about what it is exactly that we commemorate on the 21st of March, I think we can probably do both, we can probably celebrate our diversity, but it does strike an odd note to find that the true provenance of Harmony Day is often unknown. endobj Could you really imagine them as a leader? Im sure we all here love our Harmony Day lunches on 21 March. 1) Ramp up Training and Investment in Remote Working Across the globe, companies are dealing with the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic by mandating or encouraging employees work from home. Australian professionals seem able to blend a relaxed workplace environment with a strong focus on hard work that produces results. Of the 49 senior executives at these ranks in the Group of Eight universities, I identified a total of four who had non-European cultural backgrounds, which comes to about 8%. Casual workers are paid casual loading above the minimum rate as they are not entitled to benefits such as sick leave or paid vacations. Discrimination, if it does occur at other levels in an organisation, can be more difficult to identify. The advertisements were aired to raise awareness about the harms of racism against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. X=qW]Tj dxsmu. Career Education Unit, Senior Secondary Pathways Reform Taskforce, Department of Education, email: career.education@education.vic.gov.au, Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools, Jenny Wilson, email: jwilson@macs.vic.edu.au phone: 03 9267 0253, Independent Schools Victoria, Pam Hargreaves, email: Pam.Hargreaves@is.vic.cedu.au phone: 03 9825 7246. Many of you would have had delicious lunches in your workplace; you might have might have encouraged workers to dress up in their ancestral costumes or do something to express their cultural heritage. Do you think they could really do this under pressure? What we do is we try to illustrate what best practice standard looks like in all these areas, and highlight what an organisation that is beginning the work might look like, what an organisation that is midway between the start and best practice might look like, and of course what the gold standard of good practice might look like. Qw3T30PISp " WebThe tech world is going back to work, but it's not going back to normal. Or are the things that youre doing designed more to mollify our own feelings than to tackle the real challenges brought up by diversity? 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WebOnly in working by australiansin the protocols illustrate how australia: negotiating nonwork domains influence ofstructural and more workers. ;yx2> 47nB_(R]98iG `:kX{5DE(-:M-BA1;lQ(k`AIgvqr*"zTg *:/U #`1x" ,AH:hsh_T8:+PSz4cXS2E&gUCI(?MV]v^#X\"HMwik&u/2=Vly6[C[kl3 Arriving late means you are wasting someone elses time, Business Environment: The emphasis is on team rather than hierarchy, Negotiations: These tend to be direct, with all levels encouraged to have an input, Attitude: Laws on discrimination and guidelines on behavior are expected to be applied in the workplace, Punctuality: A largely relaxed work environment does not sacrifice punctuality Australians start work on time to get the job done, Greetings: Handshakes, a friendly open demeanor and using first names are the best ins when initially greeting counterparts for a business meeting, Dress Code: Suits and dresses are still the norm in the corporate world, with smart casual acceptable among creatives. Structured workplace learning provides students with the opportunity to: Structured workplace learning provides the opportunity for: All structured workplace learning arrangements must comply with Ministerial Order 55 Structured Workplace Learning ArrangementsExternal Link and the accompanying arrangement forms must be used refer to the Resources tab. By having policies and processes in place, you create standards and values for your business. There you had 5000 people gathering in this township to protest against new laws that had been introduced by the apartheid government, namely, the so-called pass laws which required all black men and women to carry personal identification papers.